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Yann Novak

@yannnovak.com

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└ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist └ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com └ Preservationist at @substratum.digital └ Developer at @3n.design └ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com 📍Los Angeles, CA 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.yannnovak.com

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · Jul 4

My new album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out now! Through this release I wrestle with what is public and private, true and false, as the world slides deeper into a fascist surveillance state.

🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...

The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6h

In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 10h

This is why I subscribe to @theverge.com! Another amazing article by @janus.bsky.social, I have had so many loose idea around this stuff floating in my head but did not have the head space or history to put them together. So thankful for this kind of reporting!

The Verge @theverge.com · 13h

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up."

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 14h

"I have a passion for Japan in general and they’re a good example of contemporary Japanese pop culture that isn’t just manufactured J-pop – it really seems like it’s coming from them and I like their independent spirit"

#RonMael of #Sparks on Atarashii Gakko! - AG! Calling

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Atarashii Gakko! - AG! Calling album cover. The band apparently in mid air, with clouds.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 1d

My theory is the memory slots we used for that are now occupied by passwords.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 3d

“It was hard to watch Jared Leto” is usually a true statement.

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 3d

Listen again: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia / 10th October 2025

Playing tracks by Yann Novak and Meredith Whittaker.

@yannnovak.com | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/soun...

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 4d

She is sooooooooo good!

Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 4d

Thanks to @room40.bsky.social for the remaster of 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 for this mix.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 4d

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, I have way to much going on right now, so I did something a little different, an unreleased redux and samples from a talk relevant to 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮.

📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 4d

Friday!
listen.camp

4-5pm: Nya Ljud
@rikardfvs.bsky.social

5-6pm: durations
@ianvine.com

6-7pm: Sounds Toward a Queer Ambitopia
@yannnovak.com

7-9pm: OBLADADA SONIKO
@johnjnicol.bsky.social

Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/

*⏰CEST

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 5d

Thank you for doing this work!

Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 6d

Why age verification laws are going to be a nightmare!

The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6d

Been experimenting with Sora a bit

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans want to double your healthcare costs.

Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 15 million people.

Republicans want to give their billionaire donors handouts at your expense.

And they’re lying about it every chance they get.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 7d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 7d

Yay!!!! Thank you soooooo much!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 8d

Please let us turn it off. I am avoiding all the 26 updates because of liquid glass.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 9d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 10d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 11d

Mine was like that for a bit too, but after a logout and log back in it eventually resolved itself.

Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 12d

It's part of the manbientsphere, I think you need to have a podcast first? Definitely a YouTube channel.

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mHz @millihertz.bsky.social · 12d

Tomorrow is the anniversary of Material Prosody's release – an excuse for me to finally make my first post here.

Forever grateful to @loscil.ca, Zimoun, Nicolas Bernier, @drewdaniel.bsky.social, & Alba Triana for being a part of this project, & to @room40.bsky.social for mastering/publishing it.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 12d

"Un lavoro che affascina, inquieta e obbliga a riascoltare il modo in cui siamo stati abituati a vedere o peggio, a sorvegliare, IL REALE."

From a great review of my recent album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in Italian magazine Rockerilla.

Scan of a review of 'Continuity' from Italian Magazine Rockerilla, it reads: Tre lunghe tracce: Metric of Caution, Context Collapse e Zones of Privacy, si estendono nell'oscura continuità di questo lavoro. Come affluenti notturni, sussurrano un racconto nel quale la promessa di trasparenza si dissolve nell'incertezza. Il dark ambient qui non è mera atmosfera: è un ordito di tensioni, un interrogare silenzioso del rapporto fra verità e controllo. In quest'epoca di apparente trasparenza dei media, il prisma deformante che tutto mostra tranne il vero, Novak costruisce architetture sonore che sembrano tradurre il suono in specchi deformati. Un lavoro che affascina, inquieta e obbliga a riascoltare il modo in cui siamo stati abituati a vedere o peggio, a sorvegliare, IL REALE. Mirco Salvadori

Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 13d

It is fat bear week right?

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